Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister podcast. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister,

and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

Now, our episode today is another installment in our series on food and food systems and food movements, and we will include

links to all of the really interesting and diverse range of conversations that we've had this year

along these lines. And our guest today, Matting Poodalus, was first introduced to me by my friend

and blister reviewer, Paul Forward.

Ma Teng is the founder of Hunt to Eat, which is a really interesting organization that exists to,

and I quote, find modern, progressive, and inclusive ways to support and grow the community of folks that go outdoors,

that harvest wild meat or plants or fungi, and take these things home to be cooked with care

for themselves or their friends and family, the folks that see the importance of wildlife and

nature.

This community is not defined by race, politics, education, wealth, or gender.

It's simply a human community.

Hunting, fishing, foraging, and existing in nature are things that human beings have done to survive since the dawn of our evolution. Everyone who exists in nature

is part of the hunt-to-eat community, and it can only grow from here." End quote.

Now many of you wrote in to say how much you enjoyed my conversation with Paul Forward,

and if you did, then I am confident that you are going to enjoy learning more about hunt to eat.

So with that, let's go ahead and get to my conversation with Matting.

Well, Maating, how are you today and where are you today?

I am wonderful and I'm in Denver, Colorado, which is my home base for the last

about 12 years. Well, cool. Well, I am certain this is going to be an interesting conversation,

and we should talk a little bit about the way that you and I got connected is through Paul

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